FOREST TREES. 15 
sylvania and New Jersey. Growing wild in these 
States, it is little more than a shrub, but becomes 
larger when cultivated. In the Southern States, it 
grows sometimes to the height of thirty feet or more. 
The fruit is sweet, but small; the wood still more 
durable than that of the Chestnut, but its dwarfish 
size will prevent its culture by any but amateurs. It 
is propagated like the Chestnut. 
CATALPA, 
Natural Order, Bignoniacee. 
Calyx, two-parted ; corolla, bell-shaped, swelling; 
the five-lobed, spreading border irregular and two- 
lipped ; fertile, stamens two or sometimes four; the 
others sterile; pod long, cylindrical. 
Catalpa bignontoides— Catalpa. 
Leaves, heart-shaped, pointed, downy beneath; 
flowers, in open compound panicles. 
The Catalpa grows in the Southwestern States, and 
appears to be indigenous in Southern Illinois and 
Indiana. It has long been cultivated ag an orna- 
mental tree furthernorth, At Princeton, Illinois, in 
latitude 41° 30’, it is hardy. I have trees of my own 
planting two feet in diameter. In its native forests, 
it reaches the height of fifty or sixty feet, with a 
diameter of from eighteen to twenty-four inches. 
The leaves are large, the flowers showy, and when in 
bloom the tree is extremely beautiful. The weight 
of its foliage renders it somewhat liable to be broken 
